The big wins for long-duration storage always seem to be just around the corner. This year brought concrete signs of progress. Following long-duration storage is like rooting for a home team that’s always about to win next year. Lithium-ion batteries utterly dominate grid storage deployments these days. That’s great for the cost decline narrative, in […]
Hydrostor Will Build Compressed Air Storage for the Australian Grid
The project could lay the groundwork for unconventional storage on a massive scale. Australia’s grid storage market isn’t just for batteries any more. Canadian startup Hydrostor will build a novel compressed-air storage device in renewables-rich South Australia, the company announced last week. It plans to use the 5-megawatt project as a “showpiece” to educate customers […]
